Senior Fire Engineer

AECOM; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure consulting firm is seeking a Senior Engineer to join their Fire Team in Manchester. The role focuses on delivering fire engineering projects with a client-centered approach. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in fire engineering and be encouraged to develop their skills further. The position offers hybrid work options and benefits tailored to employee needs.

Benefits

Hybrid work options

Comprehensive benefits packages

Employee development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing fire engineering projects.
• Experience with UK regulations and markets.
• Ability to guide entry-level fire engineers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver fire engineering projects with minimal oversight.
• Prepare and review work of others.
• Lead development of cost estimates for projects.

Skills

Technical fire engineering applications

Client-focused environment

Project management

Team leadership

Education

BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Fire Engineering

Professional qualification

Job description

Overview

AECOM is seeking a Senior Engineer to join our Fire Team. This consultancy role requires proven experience across various sectors and technical fire engineering applications in a client-focused environment.

This position is ideal for an established consultant seeking to advance their career or someone eager to expand their knowledge and design skills within a reputable and well-established fire safety consultancy. You will work closely with office leads to oversee and develop a local team, providing guidance and mentorship with support from senior staff.

What you’ll do

• Deliver from inception through to completion, with minimal senior oversight, CFD modelling, evacuation modelling and other forms of analytical fire engineering.
• Manage design projects, and prepare and review the work of others.
• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications – with a particular focus on UK regulations and markets.
• Develop approaches to solve new problems encountered using modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignments.
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Lead the development of accurate cost estimates for technical efforts for projects.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Relevant degree or professional qualification.
• Work experience within a similar consultancy or other relevant business.
• Demonstrable experience in a range of sectors and technical fire engineering applications – with a particular focus on UK regulations and markets.
• Demonstrable experience managing the fire engineering aspects of small to medium sized design projects within agreed timescales and budgets.
• Experience providing guidance to entry level fire engineers.
• Experience preparing fee proposals and task variations for fire engineering activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Fire Engineering or similar.
• Professional membership with the Institution of Fire Engineers or Engineering Council and progressing along the route to Chartership.
• Demonstrable experience of leading and actively supervising a team of more junior engineers with regards to people and projects.
• A clear work history and proof of professional development and learning.

Additional Information

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know, using the email address [e-mail], if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.